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

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

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

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.

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.

All photographs are self-portraits.

Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.