Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

A word is worth a thousand images.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Being called ‘love’ or ‘my love’ by someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

...you play the instrument you have.

In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.