The influence of mystery is the greatest influence..

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….

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood..

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery..

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….

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver..

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….

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and na….

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well..

Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediat….

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….

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….

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?.

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, ….

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….

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….

If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced it….

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results c….

Seek freedom within action..

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct….