Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.

I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh for you, man!

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

Keep eternity before the children.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

More depends on my walk than talk.

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.