It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Caring for others is the best way to fulfil our own interests.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

My favorite place to shop is: any Duane Reade.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.