All art is based on non-conformity.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

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

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

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.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.