Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures

Consciousness is only possible through change

The highway behind gives me courage to move into the future. I desire to see the first light of tomorrow.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

Great visions are cast one on one.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

Love follows knowledge.

I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.