In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

The place where I am is always my favorite place.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

A smart woman knows when to listen to her man." Her man? "He is most definitely not my man. He's not my type." "Type? If he was any more your type, he'd have you sitting in his lap.

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.