I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

if one is unfamiliar with the infinite power of the subconscious mind, then one is absolutely far from living up to one's true potential in life.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.