No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.

I'm not a nice person.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.