Occupation: Photographer Birth: December 7, 1932
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is in constantly giving back, ….
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what ti….
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct….
Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediat….
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results c….
We always point the lens both outward and inward..
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, eve….
In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or betwe….
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and na….
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expr….
Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?.
I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be….
As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our tot….
Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery..
All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver..
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersect….
The influence of mystery is the greatest influence..
Seek freedom within action..
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are..
I use my music to tune myself..
I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any de….