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.

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

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

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

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.