I wanted to go to the end of photography.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.

The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up, " I whispered."Don't give up, " she whispered back.

It is like confessing to a murder.

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

You can't let any team awe you.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!

We broke the world to make it whole.