Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.