I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

I was a personality before I became a person.

Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

I don’t make sense yadda yadaaaaa

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

I've always been into monsters.