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.

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

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

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.

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

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

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.