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.

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

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

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

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.

God answers every prayer timely

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because I thought it was so interesting out there.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?