Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Go for what you want.

I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

None are deceived but they that confide.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.