I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.
Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.
I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.
![I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/dennis-hopper/i-think-of-my-photographs-as-found-paintings-because-i-dont-crop-them-i-dont-manipulate-them-or-anything-so.jpg)
