The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

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.

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

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.