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

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.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

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