Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.