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

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.

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

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

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

Every author loves to read his own words.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot."

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.