Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.