I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

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

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.