Why Is Form Beautiful? Because, I Think,

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.

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.

Part Of The Reason That These Attempts At Explanation Fail, I Think, Is That Photographers, Like All Artists, Choose Their Medium Because It Allows Them The Most Fully Truthful Expression Of Their Vision... As Robert Frost Told A Person Who Asked Him What One Of His Poems Meant, 'you Want Me To Say It Worse?'

I Have Asked Students At The Beginning Of Their Careers, What Things Of That Sort Might Haunt Them – What Things They Must Photograph, Things They Have To Try To Shoot Even Before They Master The Intricacies Of Making Dye Transfer Prints.

Silence Is, After All, The Context For The Deepest Appreciation Of Art: The Only Important Evaluations Are Finally, Personal, Interior Ones.