Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

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

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.