It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

I'd hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That's not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

What I am to be, I am becoming.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.