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

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.

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.

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

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

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.