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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.

There's nothing like good and bad

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I’ll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando’s

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.