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

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.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

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.

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

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.