The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

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

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

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.

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

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.

Photography is a language more universal than words.