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

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

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.

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.

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.

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