Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

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

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.

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.

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

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.