Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Photography takes an instant out of time altering life by holding it still.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

You don't take a photograph you make it.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.