This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

On the way toward success, obstacles are the barrier to build the power of the mind.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.