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

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

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.