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.

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 camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

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.