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

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.

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.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.