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

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

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

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

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

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.