I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Don't let your fear hold you back, Jaz.” - Alf Abrahamsen

If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you’ll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn’t easily found in the self.

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.