If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.