I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

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

You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

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

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

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