My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.
There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.
The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.