A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature o….

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms..

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality -….

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a….

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art..

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't e….

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art..

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see..

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, ….

I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and ….

Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. ….

Art is really whispering, not shouting..

We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. ….

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forev….

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himse….

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be..

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you ….

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this..

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks..

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it..

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, an….