“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.”

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”