To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

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.

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.

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

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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