The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.