I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL

Everyone's a little nothing.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.