The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. . . someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.
I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.