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

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

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.

"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.