If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

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

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

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