Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

- Michael Kenna

The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

- Michael Kenna

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the…

- Michael Kenna

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more myst…

- Michael Kenna

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

- Michael Kenna

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with trem…

- Michael Kenna

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

- Michael Kenna

For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attem…

- Michael Kenna

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather tha…

- Michael Kenna