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.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

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

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

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.