If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.