There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

Dreams can be dangerous things.

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.