It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

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.

All photographs are self-portraits.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

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

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.