The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.