The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

It's very expensive to be me.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.