Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

Be grown enough to do whatever you want to, but wise enough to always do the right thing.

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.