It Hurts. . . It Kills. . . It Teaches. . . It Thrills. . . “IT” Is LIFE. . . !
Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.
The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.
The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.
Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.
In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.
The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.