Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

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.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

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