Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
A photograph can look any way.
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.
Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
It is always a problem to know what an image means.
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only be depicted. But photographs, private ones and others, keep appearing that fascinate me so much that I want to paint them. And sometimes the real meaning these images have for me only becomes apparent later.
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.
“One picture is worth a thousand words,” said an ancient Chinese; but it may take ten thousand words to validate it.
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.
