I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

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.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

Curiosity is the main energy.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

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.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.