The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

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

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.

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 am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.