I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.

Loving people are magnetic. To attract your SoulMate, BE the loving person you want to be, and do it NOW.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.

I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

I love playing confused, broken characters.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite