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It Is Difficult To Say Why I Decided I Wanted To Be An Artist. Obviously, I Had Some Facility, More Than Other People, But Sometimes Facility Comes Because One Is More Interested In Looking At Things, Examining Them, More Interested In The Visual World Than Other People Are.

California Is Always In My Mind.

I'm Always Excited By The Unlikely, Never By Ordinary Things.

Photography Hankers After The Condition Of The Neutral Observer. But There Can Be No Such Things As A Neutral Observer. For Something To Be Seen, It Must Be Looked At By Somebody, And Any True And Real Depiction Must Be An Account Of The Experience Of That Looking.

...all Along I've Had An Ambivalent Relationship To Photography - But As To Whether I Thought It An Art Form, Or A Craft, Or A Technique, Well, I've Always Been Taken With Henry Geldzahler's Answer To That Question When He Said, I Thought It Was A Hobby.