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.

Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

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

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

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.