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

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.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

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.

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

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