To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

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 think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.

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

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.