The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Be enthusiastic about life.

Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

No hope, is worse than fear.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.