It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

I'm not psychic myself.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.