Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

How can one live without hope and longing?

I never photograph reality.

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.