I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.