I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

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

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

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.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...

The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.