I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

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.

To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are

Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.

Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.

I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

I like girls with a good sense of humor.