That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

I'm a cold winter morning, y'all Summer's Eve.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.