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.

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

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

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

Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.