You Are Before Being And Not Being,

I've Been So Lonely Trying To Become A Photographer. If I'd Known That Before, I Don't Know If I Had The Courage To Do It Again. You Get To A Point Where You Feel That You Have Something That Is Your Own. And If You Don't Find An Audience For It, You Are Going To Burst.

For Most People To Be Happy, There Has To Be A Person, Place, Or Thing Involved In Their Happiness. In True Happiness, There Are No Things Involved. It's A Natural State. You Will Abide In That State Forever.

Part Of The Reason That These Attempts At Explanation Fail, I Think, Is That Photographers, Like All Artists, Choose Their Medium Because It Allows Them The Most Fully Truthful Expression Of Their Vision... As Robert Frost Told A Person Who Asked Him What One Of His Poems Meant, 'you Want Me To Say It Worse?'

Never Try To Stop The Thoughts. If You Try To Stop The Thoughts They Will Become Bigger And Greater And They Will Win. Because The Mind Appears To Be Very Powerful. Yet In Reality The Mind Does Not Exist. There Is No Mind. There Is No Such Thing As A Mind. So When You Sit In The Silence You Observe, You Watch, You Become The Witness.

The Only Things That Distinguish The Photographer From Everybody Else Are His Pictures: They Alone Are The Basis For Our Special Interest In Him. If Pictures Cannot Be Understood Without Knowing Details Of The Artist's Private Life, Then That Is A Reason For Faulting Them; Major Art, By Definition, Can Stand Independent Of Its Maker.