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

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

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

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

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

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

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