Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

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.

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

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.

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

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.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.