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.

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.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Peace of mind comes from keeping people's opinion far away from self perception

Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.