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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

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

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

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

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.