All photography is propaganda.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

I am what I photograph.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

Love is my way and treasure, love is my strength and power.

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'

I'm just me - the way I am.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love