A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
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.
It’s important to take bad pictures. It’s the bad ones that have to do with what you’ve never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn’t seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.
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.
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.
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
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.
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.
Take pictures of what you fear.
The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories.
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
We’ve all got an identity. You can’t avoid it. It’s what’s left when you take everything else away.
My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
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.