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

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

...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.

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.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

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