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.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.