We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

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.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

All photographs are self-portraits.

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.