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

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

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

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.