Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

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

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.