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.

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.

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.

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.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

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.