At times people in the press were also useful to me.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

True love is all about your love and not the one you love.

We learn to do by doing.

I see you, I see others and I want to see you more.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.