There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.