I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.