It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.