I Don't Get Straight People,

A Photograph Of A Woman Crying Tells Me Nothing About Grief. Or A Photograph Of A Woman Ecstatic Tells Me Nothing About Ecstasy. What Is The Nature Of These Emotions? The Problem With Photography Is That It Only Deals With Appearances.

Usually When Painters Use Photographs, They Enlarge And Copy Them And Simply Make A Large, Boring Painting Of A Large, Boring Photograph.

I Never Went To A Photography School, Which Was My Saving Grace.

I Still Find Doing Portraits A Terrific Challenge, But Even Though I've Done Hundreds Of Them, I've Never Stopped Questioning The Very Nature Of Portraiture Because It Deals Exclusively With Appearances. I've Never Believed People Are What They Look Like And Think It's Impossible To Really Know What People Are.

Taking Photographs And Writing Is My Way Of Saying I Was Here, I Saw This, I Felt This, I Heard This.