~ The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same. ~
~ In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre. ~
~ I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. ~
~ A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~
~ Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. ~
~ It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less magination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary. ~
~ Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~
~ Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~
~ When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~
~ A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into ~
~ There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer ~
~ I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~