A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've always been into shopping, and I've always been very aesthetic, in a sense.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.