The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

I don't drink anymore, on the other hand I don't drink any less either.