Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

Photography is a generous medium.