[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.