I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

All photography is propaganda.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

I am what I photograph.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

It is Halloween, ” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?

Her only shame was that she felt none.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.