Paintings Can Make You Cry And It's

From My Point Of View, Photography Never Got Any Better Than It Was In 1840.

The Reason I Don't Like Realist, Photorealist, Neorealist, Or Whatever, Is That I Am As Interested In The Artificial As I Am In The Real.

It Always Amazes Me That Just When I Think There's Nothing Left To Do In Photography And That All Permutations And Possibilities Have Been Exhausted, Someone Comes Along And Puts The Medium To New Use, And Makes It His Or Her Own, Yanks It Out Of This Kind Of Amateur Status, And Makes It As Profound And As Moving And As Formally Interesting As Any Other Medium.

In Life You Can Be Dealt A Winning Hand Of Cards And You Can Find A Way To Lose, And You Can Be Dealt A Losing Hand And Find A Way To Win. True In Art And True In Life: You Pretty Much Make Your Own Destiny. If You Are By Nature An Optimistic Person, Which I Am, That Puts You In A Better Position To Be Lucky In Life.

Inspiration Is For Amateurs - The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work. And The Belief That Things Will Grow Out Of The Activity Itself And That You Will - Through Work - Bump Into Other Possibilities And Kick Open Other Doors That You Would Never Have Dreamt Of If You Were Just Sitting Around Looking For A Great "art Idea."