The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!

Do you think ladies’ eyebrows can communicate as well?” she asked.“No, they don’t have sufficient thicketry, ” he said with authority.“Thicketry?”“Yes, that is the official term.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.