Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

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?