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

...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.

If you like music you like silence actually.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'