What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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

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.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

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