I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.