I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.