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

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

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."

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.

[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.

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

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