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

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.

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

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

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

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