I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Every Difference is a Likeness too.
If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.
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.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding
There's a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. 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.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
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.
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
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.
One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
Ein Foto ist wie das Geheimnis eines Geheimnisses. Je mehr es erzählt, um so weniger erfährt man.
Ich glaube wirklich, dass es Dinge gibt, die niemand sähe, wenn ich sie nicht fotografieren würde.
