I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

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.

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

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

School friends rarely remembered, hardly forgotten...!!

Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.