If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.

Art has to address eternal issues.

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

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

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.