A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.
The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.