In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.

Let me not fear adversity.

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.