I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.