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

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.

Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

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

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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

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.