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

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

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

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.

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