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

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.

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.

...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.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.