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.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

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.

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.

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.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.