Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.