Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

Be honest. Be faithful. Be REAL!

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

O, had I but followed the arts!