Paintings Can Make You Cry And It's

I Think I Was Driven To Paint Portraits To Commit Images Of Friends And Family To Memory. I Have Face Blindness, And Once A Face Is Flattened Out, I Can Remember It Better.

I Don't Work With Inspiration. Inspiration Is For Amateurs. I Just Get To Work.

It Always Amazes Me That Just When I Think There's Nothing Left To Do In Photography And That All Permutations And Possibilities Have Been Exhausted, Someone Comes Along And Puts The Medium To New Use, And Makes It His Or Her Own, Yanks It Out Of This Kind Of Amateur Status, And Makes It As Profound And As Moving And As Formally Interesting As Any Other Medium.

I Think The Problem With The Arts In America Is How Unimportant It Seems To Be In Our Educational System.

What Difference Does It Make Whether You're Looking At A Photograph Or Looking At A Still Life In Front Of You? You Still Have To Look.