Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Hold love like a butterfly, with gentle preservation. Hold life like the reigns of a wild stallion, with fierce assertion. Encompass that, and you find the nectar of the immortal spirit.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

If fortune favors you do not be elated if she frowns do not despond.

When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.

Excellence always sells.

The best villains are the nicest guys in person.

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

Money won't ever make you happy, nor was it ever meant to. Happiness comes from within. Money at best will make you more comfortable.

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

We must never bend too much.