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.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

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?