An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

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.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

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.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

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.