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

The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

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

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

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.