A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
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.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed, and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them.
I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
