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.

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.

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

Students were taught by doing.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

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

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