Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the determination, love, and courage it takes to find wonder and beauty in people who are considered by society to be damaged, unclean, dysfunctional, or wretched.

I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of reality that no sculptor or painter could recreate, not even a Michelangelo or a Da Vinci.

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.