Taking The Photograph Is The Easiest Part

I Never Photograph Sunsets And I Never Photograph Moonrises. I'm Not Interested In What Things Look Like.

Usually When Painters Use Photographs, They Enlarge And Copy Them And Simply Make A Large, Boring Painting Of A Large, Boring Photograph.

All Good Work Has Magic In It, And Addresses The Mind In A Subtle Way.

Art Has To Address Eternal Issues.

If I Indulge Myself And Surrender To Memory, I Can Still Feel The Knot Of Excitement That Gripped Me As I Turned The Corner Into Rue Mimosas, Looking For The House Of Rene Magritte. It Was August, 1965. I Was 33 Years Old And About To Meet The Man Whose Profound And Witty Surrealist Paintings Had Contradicted My Assumptions About Photography.