If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there.

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

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.

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

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

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.

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