My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

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

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

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.

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.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.