Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.