With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

We create the reality in which we live.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Only Jesus can complete.

If we must encounter each other, let’s do it the old way—in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"