And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

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

For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.