Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

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

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.