The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
A photograph is usually looked at seldom looked into.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
It is my intention to present through the medium of photography intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
