I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

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

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