People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Cohesion is the bane of effective independence.

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.