Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.