I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
Keith CarterI don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.
Keith CarterI'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
Keith CarterThe full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
Keith CarterPoetry 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.
Keith Carter