I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.