Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.