A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

The Tone is the Message.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

Architectural-form equals social-form

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Big players want to play in front of big audiences.

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

I didn't have the passion for athletics in that way, that there were other parts of me that felt under-served and that needed to be nurtured and needed my energy.