My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.

Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?

Jace is in love with the idea of dying,” said Isabelle.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

You have a good life when there are things to smile about today...and to motivate you for tomorrow.

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.