I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.