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.

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.

...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.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

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

All photographs are self-portraits.

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