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.

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

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

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

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

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

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