„Beauty may indeed lie in the eye of the beholder, but that eye must have an object of vision, a scene on which it can fasten, and I have found that scene, and appropriate objects within it, and that light and that color. And all this I knew from the very moment that my eye was taken by the vision of that ethereal luminous mist on that first morning in the Mojave. The desert has me in thrall, and I am happy to say that I am still astonished to discover that this is so.“