Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

I always said 'yes' to everything.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.