Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
Photography has not invented anything.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings.
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.
It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.
As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.