One person's tattoo is nobody else's business

A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Christian Audigier. It is a sad end to a brilliant marketer; his incredible energy and vision brought my artwork to global attention.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.