The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

Waiting is often the best part of the story, " he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.

If you don't know yourself then take time to find yourself

You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.