I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

The world begins with every kiss.

Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

I have one one type: Eva Lauren Tramell. That’s it.” I rolled my eyes. “Okay. Whatever.

Good writing is rewriting.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.