I don't go around looking at my pictures.

Nobody exists in a vacuum.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

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.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

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.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.