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

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.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

...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.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.