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.

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

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.

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

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.