Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.