Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.