“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life–at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.”

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don’t care where it’s going to go.

If you care to look with young eyes.

I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.

There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It’s getting very dull now.

The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive.

I could finally put into images bottled up feelings of absurdity and alienation – and also joy and delight.

…the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning, but a voice.

It’s important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation – to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn’t considered before.

So, okay photography doesn’t tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.

We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it.

There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

I’m sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.