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

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

[Photography] tells you that every second in time is different from every other second. You want people to understand that the image in front of them has something to do with the truth, and it can never be repeated.

Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

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."