I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

I think all families are creepy in a way.

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.