~ If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~
~ The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~
~ One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. ~
~ All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~
~ I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ~
~ Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be ~
~ Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ~
~ It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness ~
~ There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~
~ score, and the print the performance ~
~ Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures ~
~ Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. ~