Nikki S. Lee quotes:

As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.

What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.