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.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

I retired from everything except work.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

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.

The West to me is where the landscape is.

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.