I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.

Don't even think abou

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body.

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.