The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

A picture is like a prayer.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.