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

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

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

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