Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.