I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.