Occupation: Photographer Birth: May 8, 1937
Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realizati….
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that….
Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing..
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. ….
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….
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….
Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe..
There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light..
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 ….
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture..
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….
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion..
Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind ….
Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your frien….
With a camera, one has to love individual cases..
I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly gloriou….