I never photograph reality.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

How can one live without hope and longing?

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Only the spirit nourishes the soul.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one