You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Once destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.