I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

Watch out for your daughters.The man is coming.He’ll promise you the world.But if you accept, there’s no turning back.Watch out for your daughters.Because here comes Jack.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

To build is to dwell.

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!