When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.

Lost is not a place. It's a soul in paralysis... waiting to feel moved.

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

America needs rebooting.