I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this ….

There is no particular reason to search for meaning..

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other..

I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interest….

Photography just gets us out of the house..

There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going….

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art….

Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing a….

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

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today..

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by ….

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot..

I am at war with the obvious..

A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer informa….

I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had ….

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate….

I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wo….

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day..

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too..

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..