I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.
My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.
When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.
I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers. . . Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about. . . Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.