Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.
If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.
A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.
IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.
I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.