I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.

Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.