Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

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

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.

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

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.