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

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.

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.

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.

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.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.