Art has to address eternal issues.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.