If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.