Deep down in your heart know that all is well. Understand that the Universe is your friend and can never hurt you. It is the substratum of all existe….

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue..

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. ….

You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just….

The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your id….

I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage to do it again. You get to a point w….

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty..

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allow….

Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's….

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering i….

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe..

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision s….

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light..

The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it….

We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watche….

The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If ….

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light..

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture..

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?.

The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, ….

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should tr….