Ralph Eugene Meatyard Quotes

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.

Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.