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

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

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.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

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 lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

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

Sharpness is overrated.

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

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

The purpose of dreaming isn't to dream forever, but to wake up from it.

If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá, zjímáme skřivani.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

The study of music was a family interest.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.