Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released.

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.

I get so confused about life photography art.

Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"

Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.