But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.