A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

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

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

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.)

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 want to produce images that startle one into recollection.