When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

...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.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

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

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.