Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

We got boobies!" the kid me said, gawking at my chest. "I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.

It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

Spirit over mind. Mind over matter. It's that simple

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved