Photography threatens fantasy.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.