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

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

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

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

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

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.

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