There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.