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Never Let Anyone Define What You Are Capable Of By Using Parameters That Don't Apply To You. Inspiration Is For Amateurs, The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work. Every Great Idea I've Ever Had Grew Out Of Work Itself. Sign Onto A Process And See Where It Takes You. You Don't Have To Invent The Wheel Everyday. Today You Will Do What You Did Yesterday, Tomorrow You Will Do What You Did Today. Eventually, You Will Get Somewhere.

Once I Started Working With The Polaroid, I Would Take A Shot And If That Shot Was Good, Then I'd Move The Model And Change The Lighting Or Whatever... Slowly Sneaking Up On What I Wanted Rather Than Having To Predetermine What It Was.

Of All The Artists Who Emerged In The '80s, I Think Perhaps Cindy Sherman Is The Most Important.

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.

From My Point Of View, Photography Never Got Any Better Than It Was In 1840.