When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

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

...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.

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.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

All photographs are self-portraits.

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