I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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

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.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

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

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.