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 could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

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

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.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

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