All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.