Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.

Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

When you will have to search for long to collect other nine players to organize your usual five-a-side football match..you will realize to be old...

The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.

We all have the duty to do good.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.