“We’re so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don’t realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet…”

That’s why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual.

It’s what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television.

I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image.

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen,

Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn’t know.

It’s as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.

I’m saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored.

All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera.

An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?