It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.

Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria to grow the Naira to make it value.

I am a perfectionist in spirit

My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

No one should be afraid to be themselves.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.