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

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

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

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

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