Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.