Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

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 photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

There are people who are socially ambitious. If you go back aways, the Sculls, for instance, had a lot of money and they were socially ambitious. If you get an old master, it's not going to do you any good socially.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.