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

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

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.