I Am Convinced That Any Photographic Attempt

I Didn't Set Out To Do Something Different So Much As Do Something That Interested Me. I Wasn't Trying To Be Avant-garde - That's Being Fashionable. You Don't Set Out To Revolutionize Art, You Make Statements For Yourself.

I Don't Care What You Do With That Negative, You Can Retouch It, You Can Spit On It, You Can Grind It Underfoot. The Only Thing That Matters Is If It Is Honest. If [the Picture] Is Honest, You And Everybody Can Tell. If It Is Dishonest, You And Everybody Can Tell.

I Often Wonder Whether I Would Have Done As Well In Painting.

Photography, As We All Know, Is Not Real At All. It Is An Illusion Of Reality With Which We Create Our Own Private World.

Influences Come From Everywhere But When You Are Actually Shooting You Work Primarily By Instinct. But What Is Instinct? It Is A Lifetime Accumulation Of Influence: Experience, Knowledge, Seeing And Hearing. There Is Little Time For Reflection In Taking A Photograph. All Your Experiences Come To A Peak And You Work On Two Levels: Conscious And Unconscious.