My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.