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.

Students were taught by doing.

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.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

...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.