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

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

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

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'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.