My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

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

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?