My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

We create the reality in which we live.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

Help only comes to those who ask for it.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

Courage is fear that prays.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.