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

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

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

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

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