If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

I always try to make things fun.

Work on the Who, the Who, and the Who. Add some Who, and then explore the Who. The What and Where will reveal itself.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.