Our Universe Is A Sea

Art Depends On There Being Affection In Its Creator's Life And An Artist Must Find Ways, Like Everyone Else, To Nourish It. A Photographer Down On His Or Her Knees Picturing A Dog Has Found Pleasure Enough To Make Many Things Possible.

The Secret To Peace-of-mind Is To Not Identify With Anything Other Than Your True Self.

The Highest Truth Is To Delete, Not To Add. To Get Rid Of The Things You Believe In Now. So Empty Yourself Out Totally And Completely. All Of Your Ideas, Your Feelings, All Have To Be Emptied Out Of You. When You Become Totally And Completely Empty There Is Nothing You Have To Do To Fill It Up Again. Emptiness Is Realization. Emptiness Is Brahman. Emptiness Is The Self. Emptiness Is Your Real Nature.

When Art Is Defined By Damien Hirst And Jeff Koons, You've Got A Society That's Impoverished.

At Our Best And Most Fortunate We Make Pictures Because Of What Stands Before Our Camera, To Honor What Is Greater And More Interesting Than We Are. We Never Accomplish This Perfectly, Though In Return We Are Given Something Perfect--a Sense Of Inclusion. Our Subject Thus Redefines Us, And Is Part Of The Biography By Which We Want To Be Known.