Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

A victorious mentality is what differentiates us from the people of the world

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.