I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

If I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I can't solve a problem I can't conceive. But if someone else gives me a visual problem, it can be out of the whole realm of my normal practice.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.