All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

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.

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

A story can only be contained in a book.

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

Colombians do not like the FARC. In fact, 95 percent reject the FARC.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'