Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

If things are the way they are, why should I try to make them look different?

I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!""Adrian?""What are you doing here?""Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home.""No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

You know, ” he says, voice still low.“I have had nothing but trouble since you walked into my life.” “I’d walk straight back out of it if only you’d let me.

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.