You Can’t Teach Art, So Art School

I Got A Lot Of Flak Originally For Writing With Photographs, Because The Great Cliche In Photography Is That One Photograph Is Worth A Thousand Words, And Photographers Are Usually Dodo Birds Anyway.

Photographers Tend Not To Photograph What They Can’t See, Which Is The Very Reason One Should Try To Attempt It. Otherwise We’re Going To Go On Forever Just Photographing More Faces And More Rooms And More Places. Photography Has To Transcend Description. It Has To Go Beyond Description To Bring Insight Into The Subject, Or Reveal The Subject, Not As It Looks, But How Does It Feel?

I Already Know What Things Look Like - I Don't Want Description. People Believe In Appearances, And I Don't Believe In Appearances At All.

Most Portraits Are Lies. People Are Rarely What They Appear To Be, Especially In Front Of A Camera. You Might Know Me Your Entire Lifetime And Never Reveal Yourself To Me. To Interpret Wrinkles As Character Is Insult Not Insight.

And In Not Learning The Rules, I Was Free. I Always Say, You're Either Defined By The Medium Or You Redefine The Medium In Terms Of Your Needs.