Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

There are enough no smoking places now.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.