My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

If you want reality take the bus.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

it {romantic love} really isn't about two people who have fallen madly for each other

The Intellectual Transcending Equation In Life:Occurrence Plus Perception Minus MaterialisticReasoning Divided By Nothing Equals SpiritualProgression, With A Remainder Of Blessings.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child.