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

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

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.

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

Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.

[Nikola] Tesla is great! Tesla I actually deal with - I have this thing called the Cop Stopper that deals with Tesla's technology. It's like a Pokémon ball and you push the button.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.