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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... →
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing... →
There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others... →
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.
I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
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