You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

We need to have people up there who can communicate what it feels like, not just pilots and engineers.

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.