The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

Any photographed human being is always a photograph.

In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

He just likes to have fun, Papa.""That's not a quality that gets you far in life.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'