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

You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.

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

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

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

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

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.