The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

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.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.