I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

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

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

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.