When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his car to take a picture with his Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.

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

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

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.