. . .art Is A Discovery Of

Art Does Not In Fact Prove Anything. What It Does Do Is Record One Of Those Brief Times, Such As We Each Have And Then Each Forget, When We Are Allowed To Understand That The Creation Is Whole.

Still Photographs Often Differ From Life More By Their Silence Than By The Immobility Of Their Subjects. Landscape Pictures Tend To Converge With Life, However, On Summer Nights, When The Sounds Outside, After We Call In Children And Close Garage Doors, Are Small - The Whir Of Moths, The Snap Of A Stick.

In A Foreign Country It Is Far From Easy To Study A Scene At Length When You Know That At Any Minute Someone May Appear And Ask What You Are Doing And That You Can't Answer, And You Haven't Many References, And You Don't Know The Law. Neither Is It Easy To Find And Know The Subjects For Portraits Or Comfortable To Make Such Picture When You Cannot Apply An Anesthesia Of Small Talk.

...i Felt That Photography Ought To Start With And Remain Faithful To The Appearance Of The World, And In So Doing Record Contradictions. The Greatest Pictures Would Then... Find Wholeness In The Torn World.

Do Not Look For Signs. Do Not Look For Experiences. Do Not Be So Complicated. Become Like A Child. See Everything With Awe.