A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know..

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do..

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in li….

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them..

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse..

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle..

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you ….

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic..

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself..

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse..

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been..

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture..

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the….

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises.

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. ….

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away..

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been..

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding..

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way..

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind..