Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

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

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.

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

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.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.