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.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

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.

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.

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

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.

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