The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand..

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities..

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation..

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things..

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions..

Art and accident are one..

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities..

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection..

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation..

I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not tr….

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow..

Art accepts what it finds..

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't….

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning..

... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are mov….

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their min….

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?.

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play..

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted..

Reality is greater than our dreams..