The Camera Is Objective. When It Records

While Photography Is The Easiest Medium In Which To Be Competent, It Is The Hardest In Which To Develop An Idiosyncratic Personal Vision.

You Know, The Way Art History Is Taught, Often There's Nothing That Tells You Why The Painting Is Great. The Description Of A Lousy Painting And The Description Of A Great Painting Will Very Much Sound The Same.

The First Thing I Do Is Take Polaroids Of The Sitter - 10 Or 12 Color Polaroids And Eight Or 10 Black-and Whites.

Part Of The Joy Of Looking At Art Is Getting In Sync In Some Ways With The Decision-making Process That The Artist Used And The Record That's Embedded In The Work.

Inspiration Is For Amateurs. The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work. If You Wait Around For The Clouds To Part And A Bolt Of Lightning To Strike You In The Brain, You Are Not Going To Make An Awful Lot Of Work. All The Best Ideas Come Out Of The Process; They Come Out Of The Work Itself.