There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.