I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

The harder the challenge the sweeter the victory

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.