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.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

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

I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

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.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.