Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.