I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

A word is worth a thousand images.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red line. The inscription still makes me swoon. AnastasiaYou are My MoreMy Love, My LifeChristian

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Judges don't age time decorates them.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

No one can live under degradation.