The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

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

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

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

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.

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