I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

Abraham, " he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend.""And I to see you dead.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.