“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

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.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

If one hasn’t a horse, one is one’s own horse.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.