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

To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

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

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

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

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.

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