What I'm Trying To Do Is Create

The Place Of The Arts In The Classroom Is Essential In Encouraging Invention, Ambition, And An Understanding Of The Importance And Pleasures Of Living An Examined Life.

Fashion Is Everywhere And About Everything. It Is Folly, Vanity And The Fun Of It All. It Is Disguise, Innuendo, And Cunning. It Is Mean, Gorgeous And Ambitious, And Definitely The Last Word For The Next Few Seconds.

I Have Frequently Said, And I Will Repeat Again, In The Manner Of Any Well-meaning Seriality, That I'm Interested In Mixing The Ingratiation Of Wishful Thinking With The Criticality Of Knowing Better.

... The Thing That's Happening Today Vis-á-vis Computer Imaging, Vis-á-vis Alteration, Is That It No Longer Needs To Be Based On The Real At All. I Don't Want To Get Into Jargon - Let's Just Say That Photography To Me No Longer Pertains To The Rhetoric Of Realism; It Pertains More Perhaps To The Rhetoric Of The Unreal Rather Than The Real Or Of Course The Hyperreal.

I'm Trying To Engage Issues Of Power And Sexuality And Money And Life And Death And Power. Power Is The Most Free-flowing Element In Society, Maybe Next To Money, But In Fact They Both Motor Each Other.