~ The camera can photograph thought. ~
~ There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs ~
~ No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~
~ Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~
~ Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." ~
~ When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~
~ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~
~ A photograph is memory in the raw ~
~ Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks ~
~ You don't take a photograph, you make it ~
~ I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ~
~ A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~