The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

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.

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

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

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

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.