We Cannot Empty The Mind By Thinking.

When Art Is Defined By Damien Hirst And Jeff Koons, You've Got A Society That's Impoverished.

I've Been So Lonely Trying To Become A Photographer. If I'd Known That Before, I Don't Know If I Had The Courage To Do It Again. You Get To A Point Where You Feel That You Have Something That Is Your Own. And If You Don't Find An Audience For It, You Are Going To Burst.

When Photographers Get Beyond Copying The Achievements Of Others, Or Just Repeating Their Own Accidental First Successes, They Learn That They Do Not Know Where In The World They Will Find Pictures. Nobody Does. Each Photograph That Works Is A Revelation To Its Supposed Creator.

The Word Beauty Is Unavoidable … It Accounts For My Decision To Photograph … There Appeared A Quality, Beauty Seemed The Only Appropriate Word For It, In Certain Photographs, And I Am Compelled To Live With The Vocabulary Of This New Sight … Through Over Many Years [i] Still Find It Embarrassing To Use The Word Beauty, I Fear I Will Be Attacked For It, But I Still Believe In It.

We Have Names For Everything. What If We Forgot About Those Names? And We Stopped Seeing Things As Something? What If We Just Observed Things, Watched Things, Without Giving Them A Name, Without Coming To A Conclusion? What Do You Think Would Happen? You Would Transcend Everything.