It Is No Longer A Matter Of

The Only Nature I'm Interested In Is My Own Nature.

For Some Reason Or Other There Was In Me The Desire To See The World Clean And Fresh And Alive, As Primitive Things Are Clean And Fresh And Alive. The So-called Documentary Picture Left Me Wanting Something.

In Any Art, You Don't Know In Advance What You Want To Say - It's Revealed To You As You Say It. That's The Difference Between Art And Illustration.

The Only Other Things I Got From The Abstract Expressionists Is The Absolute Belief That This Canvas Is The Complete Total Area Of Struggle, This Is The Arena, This Is Where The Fight Is Taking Place, The Battle. Everybody Believes That, But You Have To Really Believe That And Work That Way.

To Me Documentary Photography Means Making A Picture So That The Viewer Doesn’t Think About The Man Who Made The Picture. At Its Esthetic Core Is Very Old Tradition In Art: Naturalism. And Its Purpose Is To Document All Facets Of Social Relationships.