If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.