Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing.

Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

The greatest people that ever lived were also the greatest failures. They just didn’t let those failures affect them like they do most.