I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

My favorite way to style outfits is to really use a lot of pieces in your closet.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.