- Growth Has Its Season. There Are

In My Photographs It Is Apparent That There Was No Posing At The Moment I Released The Shutter.

It Is Possible To Stand Around With A Cocktail In One's Hand And Talk With Everyone, Which Means With No One.

Mapplethorpe Presented The Body As A Sexual Object, Separating It From The Humanity Of The Person. He Added Nothing To Photography As A Medium. I Hold His Work In Low Regard.

People Say, "well, You Went On Television, It Enlarged Your Readership." It Did Not At All, Not At All. I Might As Well Tell You, I Lost Some Readership, Because The Profound Audience Felt Somehow Bothered By My Too Easy Manner.

- Growth Has Its Season. There Are Spring And Summer, But There Are Also Fall And Winter. And Then Spring And Summer Again. As Long As The Roots Are Not Severed, All Is Well And All Be Well.