I didn't care where my works were published.
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.