I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

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.