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

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

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.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.

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 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.