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.

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

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.

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!