I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

I think politicians in America don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.

Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.