When You're Growing Up Your Mother Says,

There Are An Awful Lot Of People In The World And It's Going To Be Terribly Hard To Photograph All Of Them... It Was My Teacher Lisette Model Who Finally Made It Clear To Me That The More Specific You Are, The More General It Will Be.

I Tend To Think Of The Act Of Photographing, Generally Speaking, As An Adventure. My Favorite Thing Is To Go Where I’ve Never Been.

...i Would Never Choose A Subject For What It Means To Me. I Choose A Subject And Then What I Feel About It, What It Means, Begins To Unfold.

There's A Kind Of Power Thing About The Camera. I Mean Everyone Knows You've Got Some Edge. You're Carrying Some Magic Which Does Something To Them. It Fixes Them In A Way.

It Gets To Seem As If Way Back In The Garden Of Eden After The Fall, Adam And Eve Had Begged The Lord To Forgive Them And He, In His Boundless Exasperation, Had Said, "all Right, Then. Stay. Stay In The Garden. Get Civilized. Procreate. Muck It Up." And They Did.