In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

Let's build Paradise again.

Never be afraid to ask. The worst you'll get is 'No', but maybe you'll get a 'Yes'.

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

My brother says I'm too famous to hang around with him.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes.