When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring abou….

In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing an….

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you,….

Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a ….

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say….

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, ….

It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works..

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

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….

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….

Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with lif….

Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realizati….

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have..

You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self a….

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greates….

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and ….

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something fe….

Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonder….

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

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..