I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different..

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat..

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed..

Great photography is always on the edge of failure..

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs..

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something..

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space..

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed..

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconcep….

When I’m photographing I see life..

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afte….

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there..

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for t….

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content..

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting.….

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts..

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind ..

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created..

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with b….

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a came….