The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

The woman is always more important than the clothes.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Names do not write poems nor do they create work.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

Mozart is the musical Christ.

... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.