I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.