Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

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.

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.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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

Photography is a language more universal than words.

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