Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

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

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?