Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Your voice can change the world.

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

For me it's all about creating a goal and fulfilling it.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.