We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.

Unless you realize yourself beyond the identity of the mind, you cannot become free from life.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.