If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

You can't stand for Jesus without a Christ-like spirit.

The more I learn the less I know but once you learn adversity is opportunity all you do is grow.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.