To the complaint, ’There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, ’There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.’

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term — meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching — there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

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

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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

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

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

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

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