I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

A picture is the expression of an impression

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

My hobby is to make up these "false stories". The stories that I create impact the public in a completely different form... It's enjoyable when it proceeds just as I expect it to. - A-ya

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

One thing is clear: The Iraqi people are showing incredible courage. The United States of America must understand that it's in our interests that we help this democracy succeed.

One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

s past history and stand alone.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.