Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

If your students aren't learning, then maybe you're not teaching.

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.

Be wonderful! Because you are already beautiful.

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

I think it's cool when an ex-girlfriend becomes an XL girlfriend.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.