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

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

Art has to address eternal issues.

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.

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

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.