A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

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.

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

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

If you really want to do something, you will.If not now, Eventually.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery" - Ahlam (Chaos of the Senses)

Life is tough, then you die.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

Death deserves dignity.