I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."