It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.