If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
My first thought is always of light.
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.