Politeness Is The Poison Of Collaboration.

Work Only On Problems That Are Manifestly Important And Seem To Be Nearly Impossible To Solve. That Way You Will Have A Natural Market For Your Product And No Competition.

If You Dream Of Something Worth Doing And Then Simply Go To Work On It And Don't Think Anything Of Personalities, Or Emotional Conflicts, Or Of Money, Or Of Family Distractions; It Is Amazing How Quickly You Get Through Those 5,000 Steps.

A Mistake Is An Event, The Full Benefit Of Which Has Not Yet Been Turned To Your Advantage.

Photography Is Unlike Any Other Art Form. In The Other Arts There Is Always A Continuous Interplay Between The Artist And His Art. He Has The Painting Or Sculpture Before Him. What We Have Tried To Do Is To Provide A Medium For "artistic Expression" To Anyone With Only A Reasonable Amount Of Time. By Giving Him A Camera System With Which He Need Only Control His Selection Of Focus, Composition And Lighting, We Free Him To Select The Moment And To Criticize Immediately What He Has Done. We Enable Him To See What Else He Wants To Do On The Basis Of What He Has Just Learned.

You Always Start With A Fantasy. Part Of The Fantasy Technique Is To Visualize Something As Perfect. Then With The Experiments You Work Back From The Fantasy To Reality, Hacking Away At The Components.