Good Photography Is Unpretentious.

With The Camera, It's All Or Nothing. You Either Get What You're After At Once, Or What You Do Has To Be Worthless. I Don't Think The Essence Of Photography Has The Hand In It So Much. The Essence Is Done Very Quietly With A Flash Of The Mind, And With A Machine. I Think Too That Photography Is Editing, Editing After The Taking. After Knowing What To Take, You Have To Do The Editing.

Science Has Discovered Much. The Engineering Is Wonderful, Epicycles And All. And Yet, As We Look At This Vast, Elaborate Structure Built On Layer And Layer Of Complex Constituents, Can We Help But Be Reminded Of The Land Of Oz. Have We Found The Emerald City? Is This What We Were Searching For? Is This The Ultimate Fabric Of Reality? Is This All There Is?

The Eye Traffics In Feelings, Not In Thoughts.

What I Believe Is Really Good In The So-called Documentary Approach To Photography Is The Addition Of Lyricism.[this Quality] Is Usually Produced Unconsciously And Even Unintentionally And Accidentally By The Cameraman.

... Nature Photographs Downright Bore Me For Some Reason Or Other. I Think: 'oh, Yes. Look At That Sand Dune. What Of It?'