Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.

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

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.