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.

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.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.

May the next girl you meet have the qualities of a praying mantis.

I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.