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.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

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

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.

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

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.