[on his generation of photographers] The thought for us was aways: how much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, could we really make it live as art? There was almost a moral dimension. Show less «

Let me tell you, a picture of dirt can be pretty damned dull. I ask myself, 'Is this insane? Is this another dead end or a way in?' I'm still trying to find out. Show less «

I wanted a picture that didn't say itself right away, that didn't give itself up. But that's always risky, because you work with this fear that in trying to get too much, maybe you're not getting enough. Show less «

When I look back at who that kid was in the early 1960s, I was still painting, a kind of hard-edge abstraction. But I was really hooked on an Ashcan-School-like view of real life, of the messiness and complexity of it. Show less «