A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career-and then you move to Paris.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.