I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.

To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?