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

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

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.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

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

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.