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.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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.

The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

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.