You Can't Talk About Life

Do Not Allow Your Thoughts To Become Greater Than You. No Matter What Your Thoughts Tell You, Don't Listen. Remember Your Thoughts Are Not Your Friend. Your Thoughts Try To Confound You, Confuse You. And They Will Tell You All Kinds Of Things. Do Not Listen To Your Thoughts, Even Your Good Thoughts. Transcend Everything, Go Beyond Your Thoughts To Your Bliss, To Your Joy And To Your Happiness.

Why Do Most Great Pictures Look Uncontrived? Why Do Photographers Bother With The Deception, Especially Since It So Often Requires The Hardest Work Of All? The Answer Is, I Think, That The Deception Is Necessary If The Goal Of Art Is To Be Reached: Only Pictures That Look As If They Had Been Easily Made Can Convincingly Suggest That Beauty Is Commonplace.

Among The Most Compelling Truths In Some Of The Early Photographs Is Their Implication Of Silence.

The Thing That Keeps You Scrambling Over The Rocks, Risking Snakes, And Swatting At The Flies Is The View. It Is Only Your Enjoyment Of And Commitment To What You See, Not To What You Rationally Understand, That Balances The Otherwise Absurd Investment Of Labor.

Of All The Sacred Places On The Coast, None Is More Comforting Than Where Rivers Join The Sea. By The River's Disappearance We Are Reminded Of Life's Passing, While By The Ocean's Beauty We Accept It, In A Hope We Cannot Explain.