I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

Sometimes things go wrong. You need to accept that. You need to know that you will be okay. You're amazing. You can have an amazing life if you choose to live it.

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.

The days passed, as they do, and life went on.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.