The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Time is the resource that gives birth to other things

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.

I'm certainly not a prude.

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.