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Whatever Power There Is In The Urban Pictures Is Bound To The Closeness With Which They Skirt Banality. For A Shot To Be Good — Suggestive Of More Than Just What It Is — It Has To Come Perilously Near Being Bad, Just A View Of Stuff.

You Can't Talk About Life Without Talking About Politics. You Have To Have Both. If You're Just A Political Person, You're Going To Burn Out. If You, As An Artist, Are Just Focused Inward, You're Going To Eventually Be Irrelevant.

Invention In Photography Is So Laborious As To Be In Most Instances Perverse.

The Highest Truth Is To Delete, Not To Add. To Get Rid Of The Things You Believe In Now. So Empty Yourself Out Totally And Completely. All Of Your Ideas, Your Feelings, All Have To Be Emptied Out Of You. When You Become Totally And Completely Empty There Is Nothing You Have To Do To Fill It Up Again. Emptiness Is Realization. Emptiness Is Brahman. Emptiness Is The Self. Emptiness Is Your Real Nature.

Always Remember Deep In Your Heart That All Is Well And Everything Is Unfolding As It Should. There Are No Mistakes Anywhere, At Any Time. What Appears To Be Wrong Is Simply Your Own False Imagination. That's All. But We Live In A Universe Of Brahman, Of Absolute Reality, Self -contained Consciousness, Where There's Perfection, Perfect Life, Perfect Bliss, Perfect Being. That Perfection Knows Nothing About Wrong And Right, Good And Bad, Happy And Sad. It Knows Only Itself As Perfection. And You Are That.