The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .