“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.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.”

“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.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”