It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.