A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Students were taught by doing.

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.

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

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

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 I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.