There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

If you want reality take the bus.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.

Envy loves to tease a man constantly playing yo-yo, which is a cherished dream man.

There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.