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.

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

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

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

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

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