You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee—

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.