[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.

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

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

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 think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

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."

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