The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.