To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice.

There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

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

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.

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

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

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.