All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

The fight for photography became my life.

I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.