Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.