Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.