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

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

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.