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

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

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

I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.