A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

Some of us see endless darkness and get scared. Some of us see the joyful moon and dancing stars.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Stop sketching and start building.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.