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

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

...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.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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

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.