Photographing a cake can be art.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.