Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.