You Make History When You Do Business.

... The Thing That's Happening Today Vis-á-vis Computer Imaging, Vis-á-vis Alteration, Is That It No Longer Needs To Be Based On The Real At All. I Don't Want To Get Into Jargon - Let's Just Say That Photography To Me No Longer Pertains To The Rhetoric Of Realism; It Pertains More Perhaps To The Rhetoric Of The Unreal Rather Than The Real Or Of Course The Hyperreal.

It Entered The Visual Vocabulary Of Photographers, Painters And Sculptors And Focused On What Pictures And Words Look Like And What They Can Mean.

The Place Of The Arts In The Classroom Is Essential In Encouraging Invention, Ambition, And An Understanding Of The Importance And Pleasures Of Living An Examined Life.

I've Always Been Very Tied To Language.

The Different Aspects Of My Activity, Whether It's Writing Criticism, Or Doing Visual Work That Incorporates Writing, Or Teaching, Or Curating, Is All Of A Single Cloth, And I Don't Make Any Separation In Terms Of Those Practices.