Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

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

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

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

Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.

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.