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Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

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I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world...

People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the...

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