Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

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

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

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.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.