I had in mind a long career.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.