Take pictures of what you fear.

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

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.

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

I think all families are creepy in a way.

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

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