We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

My greatest pleasure is to travel down an unfamiliar road.

You can choose to believe whatever you wish

She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

The great thing about being up early on a Sunday is nothing.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.