I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

Art has to address eternal issues.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

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

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me