What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.