In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.