"A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints."
"But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say."
"For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me."
"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product."
"I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it."
"I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may."
"I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing."
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
"The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have."
"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
"You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into."
"What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else."
"This particular work that I'm so involved with is very dependent on the dynamics and the theatricality of composition and light."
"Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper."
"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."