The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

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

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera