All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.