Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography – that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes ‘art’ in time.

I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz

As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.