Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.
Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.
. . . if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real. . . [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.