If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death’s memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.