Art Is Really Whispering, Not Shouting.

To Photograph Reality Is To Photograph Nothing.

Photography Does Deal With 'truth' Or A Kind Of Superficial Reality Better Than Any Of The Other Arts, But It Never Questions The Nature Of Reality - It Simply Reproduces Reality. And What Good Is That When The Things Of Real Value In Life Are Invisible?

If You Look At A Photograph, And You Think, 'my Isn't That A Beautiful Photograph,' And You Go On To The Next One, Or 'isn't That Nice Light?' So What? I Mean What Does It Do To You Or What's The Real Value In The Long Run? What Do You Walk Away From It With? I Mean, I'd Much Rather Show You A Photograph That Makes Demands On You, That You Might Become Involved In On Your Own Terms Or Be Perplexed By.

Taking Photographs And Writing Is My Way Of Saying I Was Here, I Saw This, I Felt This, I Heard This.

Photography Is Essentially An Act Of Recognition By Street Photographers, Not An Act Of Invention. Photographers Might Respond To An Old Man’s Face, Or An Arbus Freak, Or The Way Light Hits A Building—and Then They Move On. Whereas In All The Other Art Forms, Take William Blake, Everything That Came To That Paper Never Existed Before. It’s The Idea Of Alchemy, Of Making Something From Nothing.