To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

You're a legend in your own mind.

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.