I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

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.

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.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

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

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

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.