We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I like to photograph democratically.

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.