Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal

Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")

The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.