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.

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.

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

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.

We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth

All we endured throughout the year was - but an integral part of our life’s learning & evolution.

I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.