Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
There's something rich and nourishing in the mundane - that isn't sparkly or red carpet.
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
