I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

"The whole world loves a lover" is an interesting theory but a very bad legal defense.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

My breakfast is very important.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.

Sometimes, when there's a video montage. I'm thinking, 'That's my life. Oh, my God, I did that.' Yeah, it's amazing.