I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.