Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.