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 are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

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.

I retired from everything except work.

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

The West to me is where the landscape is.