People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

...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.

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

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.