I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

We see the world through our experience.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen.

Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile. M.Sullivan

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.