With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: “Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print...

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

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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...

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have somone click the shutter.

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

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

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography – therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with...

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

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

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

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

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things…It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations...

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!

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...

The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.

Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point,

It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

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

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.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being

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...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

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

I never know in advance what I will photograph, … I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I...

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we...

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

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

The best master printer

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

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

There is nothing worse than a brilliant 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.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

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.