Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat,… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
