The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

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.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.