All critics should be assassinated.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

Long live the pioneersRebels and mutineersGo forth and have no fearCome close the end is near

Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

Nothing is too small to matter.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Everything you want and you don't have, you get from other people.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.