Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

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.

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb—an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

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.

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

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