...combining The Concrete And The Universal Is

No Place Is Boring, If You've Had A Good Night's Sleep And Have A Pocket Full Of Unexposed Film.

In A Foreign Country It Is Far From Easy To Study A Scene At Length When You Know That At Any Minute Someone May Appear And Ask What You Are Doing And That You Can't Answer, And You Haven't Many References, And You Don't Know The Law. Neither Is It Easy To Find And Know The Subjects For Portraits Or Comfortable To Make Such Picture When You Cannot Apply An Anesthesia Of Small Talk.

Well, You Know, The Mind Is Nothing. The Mind Is Only A Bunch Of Thoughts. Thoughts About The Past And The Future, That Is All A Mind Is. But, The Heart Is A Center Of Stillness, Of Quietness, Of Absolute Peace. When You Rest Your Mind In Your Heart, You Feel A Joy And A Bliss That Overwhelms You, And You Will Know. Surrender Your Mind To Your Heart, And You Will Feel It.

Let Go Of The Thoughts, Let Go Of The Mind, Let Go Of Everything. Let Go! Drop It! Drop Everything. Hold Onto Nothing.

Art Depends On There Being Affection In Its Creator's Life And An Artist Must Find Ways, Like Everyone Else, To Nourish It. A Photographer Down On His Or Her Knees Picturing A Dog Has Found Pleasure Enough To Make Many Things Possible.