...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

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 Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

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

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.

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

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