I Think There Are Lots Of Ways

I Think That Every So-called History Book And Film Biography Should Be Prefaced By The Statement That What Follows Is The Author's Rendition Of Events And Circumstances.

Money Talks. It Makes Art. It Determines What Food We Eat, Whether We Are Cured Or Die, And What Shoes We Wear.

I Think There Are Different Ways Of Being Rigorous, And I Am Asking People To Be As Rigorous In Their Pleasure As In Their Criticism.

I Think That The Exactitude Of The Photograph Has A Sort Of Compelling Nature Based In Its Power To Duplicate Life. But To Me The Real Power Of Photography Is Based In Death: The Fact That Somehow It Can Enliven That Which Is Not There In A Kind Of Stultifying Frightened Way, Because It Seems To Me That Part Of One's Life Is Made Up Of A Constant Confrontation With One's Own Death.

All The Gossip And Craziness Becomes A Kind Of Sustained Narrative Which, In Turn, Can Become History. It's Scary.