“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique – these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

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.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

You can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.