I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.