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A Photograph Is Not An Accident - It Is A Concept.

The Technique Of 35mm Photography Appears Simple. One Is Beguiled By The Quick Viewing And Operation, And By The Very Questionable Inclination To Make Many Pictures With The Hope That Some Will Be Good.

The Sheer Ease With Which We Can Produce A Superficial Image Often Leads To Creative Disaster.

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.

The ‘machine-gun’ Approach To Photography – By Which Many Negatives Are Made With The Hope That One Will Be Good – Is Fatal To Serious Results.