"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"."

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

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

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

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.