Pastoral Resources

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

I'm an avid biography reader.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.