To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.