[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you.” “You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.