Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who