All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

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

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.