Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

There was warmth in his large piercing brown eyes. The kind of warmth that tucks a child into bed. The same kind of warmth that dries your wet hair on a rainy December afternoon.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

A hand held tightly, never to really let go.Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul.

My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

It takes a lot of good songs to write a great song!

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.