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.

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.

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

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

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.