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

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

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.

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.

I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

We are not always funny, but like a life with Fun

Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Beyoncé is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.