Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

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

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.