When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

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

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.