If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.