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

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

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

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.

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 should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

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