I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious—every portion of you recognizes home.  That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.

When you are young "money" is not the same.