Clarence John Laughlin Quotes

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.