Genius and taste don't go together.

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.