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.

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

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

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 reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

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

Students were taught by doing.