I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.