It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty