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.

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 find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.