I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Listen to your bodies. You are constantly receiving information from your body about how to care for it and yourself.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.