To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?

Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.

Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?

My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.