You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

All photography is propaganda.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

I am what I photograph.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

He who coordinates his thoughts with his actions controls his own destiny.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

I assume these structures are made for siting?

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.