There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

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.

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.)

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

I will not make anymore boring art.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.