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

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.

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

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.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.

Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.