The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Consciousness is only possible through change

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

up upIf someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

You have to be somewhat crazy, if you want to be successful.

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.