We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

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.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs

Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

Our hearts lie. Something can 'feel' right and be completely wrong.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.