“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.

I’ve never had a treehouse because I live in New York City.

But I don’t fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult.” That’s where she was wrong. “No, You’re my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.

How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

It’s better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.