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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I want to know art.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.