Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

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.

You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.

Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own.

No matter how hard it is to see kid tears, grown-up tears are worse to watch.

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

They be like what's the formula? I be like kiss the Son, kiss your worries goodbye.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.