The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.