...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important..

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves..

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. ….

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

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion..

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it..

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence..

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you h….

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….

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

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You….

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. ….

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….

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 ….

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self..

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….

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, aut….

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

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….

Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; ….