I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand…

- Keith Carter

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

- Keith Carter

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at th…

- Keith Carter

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

- Keith Carter

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our…

- Keith Carter

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

- Keith Carter

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in li…

- Keith Carter

Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But someti…

- Keith Carter

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

- Keith Carter