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.

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.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

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.

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.

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