I have no expectations. None at all.

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

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other.

Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple