Art includes the freedom to wander off. If someone says that they want to be an artist, that’s like trying to write words around the unexplainable. Why do it? Explore the unknown.

We’re our age for a short while, yet the present touches eternity.

To see a photograph, we must forget that we’re viewing one. To see photography, we must acknowledge mood and atmosphere.

Despair is progress misinterpreted. Make a stranger laugh. Focus on what you enjoy more than the attention it brings.

Freedom is time with your thoughts and knowing they’re not yours. I can color-correct monochrome images exceptionally well, and the worst part of country music is anger in a bottle.

You don’t have to be anything. Fly to any city in the US to see the same stores, cars, and roads. Too few pictures capture our lived reality.

In saying very little, I stood closer to what I had to say and encountered it before I knew what it was. Brag about eyesores if there’s almost nothing nice to say.

In proximity to everything, monochrome represents hard times. The thought of everything worsening is a misinterpretation of how far we’ve come. Each photo changes photography. There’s a point where enough is enough and plenty near gratitude. It’s hard to become impoverished in a free society.

Why we start businesses is similar to why we write songs if the reason is to lessen suffering. Reducing suffering is as close to a philosophy of everything that I have found.

Film photography was a folk art. People wrote with light, and shutters drew simple moments into dark boxes.

Near–middle–far is to a picture what time–manner–place is to a sentence.