“I miss them. Miss isn't the right word. I miss them the way you miss water in a desert. I miss them the way children miss their parents, the way I miss Mrs. Wexler, the way I miss things being easy and clouds being below me. They way you miss things you don't know how to be without, but you know they're never coming back.” ChangeGrowing UpAnxiousness Book:Sparrow Source: Sparrow
“...her offer of friendship feels like a long-lost favorite sweater that's too small once you find it.” ChangeFriendshipGrowing Up Book:Sparrow Source: Sparrow
“The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.” ThinkingStillsI CanCertainInterestAmountUnconsciousness Author:Sarah Moon
“I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.” FictionSituation Author:Sarah Moon
“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.” WantGivingShouldStoriesElementsPhotographyNarrative Author:Sarah Moon
“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.” IfsMindStatesWould BeEyeEmotionGraceSeeingPhotographySurpriseAppearanceSurprise MeForeseen Author:Sarah Moon
“I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.” BelieveI BelieveBlackWhiteColorPhotographyEssenceBlack And WhiteDeviance Author:Sarah Moon
“What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.” GivenInformationAimMinimumMarkers Author:Sarah Moon
“Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.” FirstsHappensOrderFashionPhotographyThings HappenEliminating Author:Sarah Moon
