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.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
I can’t verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept.
The negative is the score, and the print the performance.