It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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

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.

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

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.