Sharpness is overrated.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

Through adversity we find our better self.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.