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

Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

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

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.