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

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.

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.

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.- Mark Twain

If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.

I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West.

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!