Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.