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

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

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

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.