Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.