Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.