Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

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 photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.