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

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

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

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.

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

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

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