I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.

If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.

I could go to juvie instead of real prison.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?