Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Art accepts what it finds.

..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

'Summer Heights High' is one of my favourite shows of all time. I'm obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous.

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.