“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.”

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.

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.

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

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

It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.

Great men have the nature of a child.

Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

My mom didn’t ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable!

I never put a price on a child.