All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.