I seek out places where it can happen more readily, such as deserts or mountains or solitary areas, or by myself with a seashell, and while I’m there get into states of mind where I’m more open than usual. I’m waiting, I’m listening. I go to those places and get myself ready through meditation. Through being quiet and willing to wait, I can begin to see the inner man and the essence of the subject in front of me... Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass—sometimes I’ve seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out. 

 I have discovered camera is both a way of life and not enough to live by. 

 A sequence of photographs is like a cinema of stills. The time and space between photographs is filled by the beholder, first of all from himself, then from what he can read in the implications of design, the suggestions springing from treatment, and any symbolism that might grow from within the subject itself. 

 Because a man trains himself to see like a camera, it is only more appropriate that he uses a camera to record his seeing. 

 The camera is hardly more than a recording device for an experience between two people. 

 The objectivity of the camera, used wrongly, is the very devil. 

 Vision without association—pristine vision? 

 No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.