We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation..

The only burden you have ever had is your mind..

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….

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….

Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down on hi….

Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing..

Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind ….

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

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work o….

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones..

Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public o….

If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photograp….

When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feel….

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

Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be….

...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….

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty..