It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

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

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.

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.