When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

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