A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.