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

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

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

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

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.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.