I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

If you want reality take the bus.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.

A chain is as strong as its weakest link...........and a brain is as strong as its weakest think!

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

What tinfoil?" he asked.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.