Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.