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?

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

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

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

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.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.