The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.