On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a cam…

- Bill Henson

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

- Bill Henson

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

- Bill Henson

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to…

- Bill Henson

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. A…

- Bill Henson

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sens…

- Bill Henson

Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of…

- Bill Henson

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradi…

- Bill Henson

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience o…

- Bill Henson