I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

Well, Presiden Reagan kan sudah bilang. Bila temanmu kehilangan pekerjaan, maka kau tahu arti resesi. Dan bila giliranmu kehilangan pekerjaan, maka barulah kau tahu arti depresi.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

everybody has a story to tell

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.