I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

Horror make me awake and when I don't think about it but I read it it make me sleepy!

S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all landA:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creation in a palm of a hand, D:ancing IT makes the desert bloom.

The broken ones need someone to fight for them even harder.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

No matter which way I move you, that's a powerful thing to be able to do.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.