It is impossible to have progress without conscience

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.