You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one..

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in li….

I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the worl….

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared..

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter..

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs"..

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our….

I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand….

Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But someti….

When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vi….

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometime….

I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I do….

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at th….

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really j….

I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make differen….

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory..

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with..

Sharpness is overrated..

I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here..

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life..

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig..