The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.

To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.

The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

Letting go of the cozy stories you've been carrying around is devastating. But there's more room for new stuff after you do it.

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.