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

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

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

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.