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.

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never transcend being just snapshots. When a great photographer does infuse the snapshot with his personality and vision, it can be transformed into something truly moving and beautiful.

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

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

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