I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

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.

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

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.