I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.