I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.