Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.