Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.

Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

Statesmen remember things selectively.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.