We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

All photography is propaganda.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

I am what I photograph.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.