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

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

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.

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

Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

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