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.

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

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

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.

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

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