I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

Fact is fact

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept them in their priceless moments.

When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.