quotes
Animating spirit
“… worry less about what you make — that will mostly look after itself, and is to some extent beyond your control, and perhaps even […]
Parking lot pigeons
“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it’s trust. […]
Window distortions
“Look at everything. Don’t close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.” — […]
Animal nature
“All this points to a kind of imperative, minimally expressed as: Do something. Better expressed, it says: Create something. To do otherwise is simply to […]
Go on anyway
“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. […]
In the frame
“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I […]
A portrait
“I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had […]
We can live in the empty spaces of this life
“Photographers who can teach us to love even vacant lots will do so out of the same sense of wholeness that inspired the wilderness photographers […]
Mildly contemptible self-indulgent dilettante
“I have to admit that there is another reason I like photographers — they don’t tempt me to envy. The profession is short on dignity: […]
Colour is power
“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you’re alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I […]
Visible world
“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was […]
Out in the world
“What freedom! Just being out in the world, shooting whatever spoke to me or suggested itself to my eye. Actually, learning to listen to what […]
Under the sun
“Don’t censor yourself. Go ahead and photograph anything around you that seems interesting. Don’t compare yourself. People think ‘this has been done before’, and you […]
Utopia’s pill
“We are moving into a period of bewilderment, a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the […]
Without words
“This life I have made is too small. It doesn’t allow enough in: enough ideas, enough beliefs, enough encounters with the exuberant magic of existence. […]
Le Red Tiger
“Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all […]