A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

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.

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

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

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