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

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

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

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

...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.

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.