To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction

I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

The cup is both half full and half empty

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.