You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints.

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.

Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.