[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.

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.

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

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

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

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.