Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

No human being should wear tight satin.

If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.