You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

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

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

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

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.