I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Two were things where I just wasn't stout enough. That's the most that ever happened to me.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

For many 19th-century artists, the usual reaction to photography was no reaction at all. They simply ignored it. But not Degas. He was deeply interested in the new medium, not just as a tool that could help with his drawings and paintings, but as an art form in its own right.

What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists.