Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.
I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems and sometimes they are logistical problems.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
If I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I can't solve a problem I can't conceive. But if someone else gives me a visual problem, it can be out of the whole realm of my normal practice.
My ambition was to live like music.
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.