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.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

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.

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.

I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.