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

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

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.