In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

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

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

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.