Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

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.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

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.

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

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.