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You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go ... That's the kind of lens I'm looking for.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.

I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.

...luck, aesthetic luck included, is just the ability to exploit accidents.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

I never read about photography.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

I believe that photographs actually rob all of us of our memory.

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

I'm past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary ... it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.