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When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I'm through a series, I'm so drained I don't want to get near the camera.

I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it.

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I've lost control of it.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

I'm trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

Believing in one's own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.