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

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.

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

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.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

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

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.