The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.