Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.

My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.

...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.