I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.
So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.
Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
