Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

I dream like a dew drop in the nightThen glitter in the morning sunlightThen it evaporates to embrace the sky

A man must take the fat with the lean.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?