No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

...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.

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 see no reason for recording the obvious.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

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

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