Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

A word is worth a thousand images.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyèreL'automne est morte souviens-t'enNous ne nous verrons plus sur terreOdeur du temps brin de bruyèreEt souviens-toi que je t'attends

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

When we love others we see our oneness with others.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness.