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

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

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

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.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

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

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.