The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.

I begin by not photographing.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

Liberty is dangerous.

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart

Sometimes miracles come in pairs.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.