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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.