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

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.

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.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

All artists are two-headed calves.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.