In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change yourdestiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helpsknowing about gravity.

The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist, ' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

I always have a bit of a look, a bit of a frown.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Children become like the things they love.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.