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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.