Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

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

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

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.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.