As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe "what happened, happened as it should happen" when things don't come as expected.

You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

A lot of people don't believe in curses.A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.

Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.