There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.