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

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.

Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

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

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.