...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

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.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

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

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.