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

All photographs are self-portraits.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

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