Anything Simple Always Interests Me.

I Have Never Really Done Any Teaching And Maybe I Should Have Done. I Am Not Power-mad Enough.

It Sometimes Takes A Foreigner To Come And See A Place And Paint It. I Remember Someone Saying They Had Never Really Noticed The Palm Trees Here Until I Painted Them.

People Criticized Me For My Photography. They Said It's Not Art.

Smoking Calms Me Down. It's Enjoyable. I Don't Want Politicians Deciding What Is Exciting In My Life.

...all Along I've Had An Ambivalent Relationship To Photography - But As To Whether I Thought It An Art Form, Or A Craft, Or A Technique, Well, I've Always Been Taken With Henry Geldzahler's Answer To That Question When He Said, I Thought It Was A Hobby.