To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors.

The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.

If a tree falls in the woods when no one is there, does it still make a noise? If a girl dies in the woods when no one is there, does anyone care? If no one knows I am here, do I even exist?

With all my fans I got a family again.

Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10, 000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

There's usually a few people who are like, "Say... what would that look like on our channel?" Interest can be expressed without directly expressing interest.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.