At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Sharpness is overrated.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

Canadians are often a friendly bunch.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

Without holiness you cannot talk of God.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.