Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

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

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.