I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

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.

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

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

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.