I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right?

I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.

I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

Know that America belongs to you, to all of you.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.