The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

The soul's garden is watered by love's rivers.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.