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.

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

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

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.

Photography is a generous medium.

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.