People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.