All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.