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.

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.

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

Photography is a language more universal than words.

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.

Students were taught by doing.

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