It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

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.

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?

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.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

If you listen too much to doubts you're totally lost.