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.

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

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.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

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

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

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.