It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.- RVM

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

If people were kinder, the world might cease weeping.

O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.