I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

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

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