After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

Love is the beauty and ecstasy of life.

We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

I'm a liberal and I'm left of Gandhi and I don't like Trump.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

God doesn't want to give Israel a king, because God knows, being the rather observant deity God is, that the Israelites will become like all other nations: they will worship their king and not God.