I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

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.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.