Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.