“I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seei...” — David Maisel Quote

“I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.”

“The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging industry - the earth transformed on that scale by humans.”

“I just want to sound different than everyone else. I don't care if it sounds bad. I just want people to be like, 'Yo, that dude Benny was different.' Even if it sounds awful, at least they can't say, 'Oh well, I've heard that before.'”

“I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.”

“To stay at the elite end of professional sport you need to show an awful lot of dedication.”