Happiness Is Your True Nature. Within You

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.

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.

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

Still Photographs Often Differ From Life More By Their Silence Than By The Immobility Of Their Subjects. Landscape Pictures Tend To Converge With Life, However, On Summer Nights, When The Sounds Outside, After We Call In Children And Close Garage Doors, Are Small - The Whir Of Moths, The Snap Of A Stick.

Philosophy Can Forsake Too Easily The Details Of Experience… Many Writers And Painters Have Demonstrated That Thinking Long About What Art Is Or Ought To Be Ruins The Power To Write Or Paint.