We may not verbalize the most important aspects of our lives, but we often can photograph them as equivalents of our feelings. Thus creative work is born of emotional necessity. It represents the fulfillment of an artist's thoughts and feelings. I tell students that the camera is only a tool for the photographer as a brush and canvas are tools for a painter. The artist is successful only if he or she can use the tools at hand to express feelings.
Words can convey our ideas about our feelings but never the feelings themselves.
Feeling produces identification with the subject. As a photographer, I try to become the subject of my camera. I become the ideal woman my photograph of a female nude represents. I seek harmony. The human body is art.