I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you're down, smile with all your might.

Be a fairy. Dance like a butterfly.

If a man couldn’t control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.

Oh, I don’t mean to infer that you’re not a great guy. I’m sure you’re the exception to the rule.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.