If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

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

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.

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.

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

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.