I Suddenly Understood That A Photograph Could

There Is No Closed Figure In Nature. Every Shape Participates With Another. No One Thing Is Independent Of Another, And One Thing Rhymes With Another, And Light Gives Them Shape.

A Photograph Is Neither Taken Or Seized By Force. It Offers Itself Up. It Is The Photo That Takes You. One Must Not Take Photos.

One Has To Tiptoe Lightly And Steal Up To One's Quarry; You Don't Swish The Water When You Are Fishing.

Some Photographs Are Like A Chekhov Short Story Or A Maupassant Story. They're Quick Things And There's A Whole World In Them. But One Is Unconscious Of It While Shooting.

Inside Movement There Is One Moment In Which The Elements Are In Balance. Photography Must Seize The Importance Of This Moment And Hold Immobile The Equilibrium Of It.