Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

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.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

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

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.