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.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

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

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

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.