There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.