I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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

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

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.