The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth.

Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks.

I see that you, like many before you. The happiest person on earth would look in the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.