Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

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

The thing that’s important to know is that you never know. You’re always sort of feeling your way.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

The more specific you are, the more general it’ll be.

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

When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch...

What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

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

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.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.