Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.