I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.

The best way to love a woman is to let her bloom like a flower so that you can enjoy her beauty without plucking her petals.

What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.