My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.

I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.