My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At….

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being t….

What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new….

Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant….

The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invi….

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things..

I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center of the universe, and, if they are….

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving..

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature..

Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee wh….

Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understan….

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintin….

There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of ….

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy..

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and….

At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuit….

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existenc….

What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan a picture, bu….

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived..

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully..

For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaning….