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.

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.

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

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

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

I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.

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.