There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described..

All things are photographable..

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface..

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good.

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….

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

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

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

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content..

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

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….

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

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.….

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

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….

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

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..

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..