As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'