...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.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

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

Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

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