Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. the photographer begins with the finished product

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.