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.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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.

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

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.