As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

That which you manifest is before you.The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

Be transparent about company values and adhere to them as your company grows.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.