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.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

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

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