It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason..

Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact tha….

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else..

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

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..

There is no particular reason to search for meaning..

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 like to photograph democratically..

I am at war with the obvious..

Photography just gets us out of the house..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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 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 ….