Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

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

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

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.