If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

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.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

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

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.